Ed 603 - Assignment 15 - The Final Project
For this final assignment for Ed 603, you are going to prepare a complete research plan
or proposal. This proposal should be written in the present tense, in contrast to the
completed study which would generally be written in the past tense. The good news is that
you have already done all the parts of your proposal, this assignment is just to put all
the parts together into a formal research proposal.
Use APA style throughout your proposal except you do not have to double space your paper,
you should single space it, but double space between paragraphs (and between headings). The
reference list should also be single spaced but double space between individual references.
Use APA style for the headings - Title, Introduction, Method, Data Analysis, and
References will be your highest level of headings, they should be centered. Under these
major headings will be the subheadings of Statement of the Problem, Review of Related Literature,
Statement of the Hypothesis, Subjects, Instruments, Experimental Design, and Procedure.
The subheadings should be left justified.
Specific Format for Completing the Final Project and
sending it to the Ed 603 Instructor
You should create a word processing document for the final project with the following
items or components:
- Title - the title of your proposal
- Your Name
- Introduction
- Statement of the problem - state your research problem in a general way or as a
question. Include informal operational definitions of all variables. You
have done this in Assignment 5. Your statement of the problem should be stated
as a question or as a statement and should be in one of the forms discussed in
Lesson 3 in the section "Models for Stating Research Problems".
- Review of related literature - Develop your review of the literature in a logical
manner as you did in Assignment 5. Try to move from more general concerns to
concerns more specific to your problem. The end of your literature review should lead
to the hypothesis (or hypotheses) for your study. Your review of related literature
should be at least 8-10 pages in length.
- Statement of the hypothesis. Formally state your research hypothesis including
clearly stated, formal, operational definitions of all variables. You did
this in Assignment 7.
- Method
- Subjects (you did this section in Assignment 8).
- Instruments (you did this section in Assignment 8).
- Experimental design (you did this section in Assignment 14).
- Procedure (you did this section in Assignment 14).
- Data analysis - Indicate how you propose to analyze your data, including specific
statistical tests you will use with your data (you did this section in Assignment 14).
- References - Use APA style for your reference list (you did this in Assignment 5). For a
research proposal you should have at least 15 references (15 to 25 references is optimal).
After you have completed the assignment (and saved it on your computer)
send e-mail to your instructor indicating that you are sending
the final project for Ed 603 in and then attach the file for the
assignment to your email message. The e-mail address for the instructor,
John Wasson, is wassonj@teleport.com